My New Bass
I bought a 1972 Fender Jazz bass last Summer from Chris Plata’s wife, Ann Plata. Actually, my co-worker at the time was working on her bass, and brought it into work so she could pick it up. He showed it to me and told me that she might be interested in selling it. It was all original, but one of the pickups had something wrong with it. He got back to me and said she only wanted $900 for it. SOLD! It also came with an extra set of Bartollini pickups and a BadAss bridge, which I could use on one of my other basses; I’m thinking my fretless.
It played really well, but it needed either a fret leveling or to be re-fretted. I do most of my own work on my basses, but I have all of my major work done by George Rondinelli, from Rondinelli Music/Audio in Dubuque, IA. I’ve been pondering for a long time what to do with this thing but decided that this is going to be my main bass for quite some time and I might as well have it refretted. I also had my pickups sent off to a company called Lindy Fralin to take a look at my pickups. They decided that they needed to be rewound, which was done to spec of a 1972 Fender Jazz.
Anyway, it might be done by this weekend, so I might be making a trip to Dubuque to pick it up. After that, I’m thinking I’ll be busy for a while.
